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List Price: $5.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 7216
Released: September 24, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Get ready for big FAT laughs! Featuring Hollywood's hottest teen stars, Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle) and Nickelodeon's Amanda Bynes, Big Fat Liar is the hilarious revenge comedy filled with nonstop action and laugh-out-loud fun! Fourteen-year-old Jason Shepherd (Muniz) has a reputation for stretching the truth. So, when big-time Hollywood producer Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) steals his class paper and turns it into a smash hit movie, no one believes Jason's latest tall tale! On a cross-country adventure to set the record straight, Jason and best friend Kaylee (Bynes) devise a high-tech plan to squeeze the truth out of Wolf through a series of outrageous pranks, crazy stunts and big laughs. It's payback time - BIG TIME!
Description of Big Fat Liar (Full Screen Edition):
Pitting kids against grown-ups has always been a reliable source of comedy, and Big Fat Liar indulges the "smart kid vs. dumb adult" fantasy with infectious enthusiasm. In this case it's Frankie Muniz from TV's Malcolm in the Middle, playing a Michigan eighth-grader whose penchant for lying results in parental scorn when he claims that a Hollywood movie mogul (ace character actor Paul Giamatti) has stolen the kid's hastily written English essay and turned it into his upcoming summer blockbuster. The kid only wants to prove his honesty and recruits his girlfriend (spunky TV star Amanda Bynes) to beat the honcho on his Hollywood turf. Elaborate practical jokes and slapstick gags turn this kid stuff (scripted and produced by two former child stars) into an enjoyable send-up of Hollywood absurdity. When combined with Giamatti's mastery of slow-burning megalomania, the show-biz in-jokes and Home Alone-style anarchy make this a harmless diversion for the young and young-at-heart. --Jeff Shannon
Big Fat Liar (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
Taking a Break 
2009-07-06 - It is so nice to watch something indecently funny afterwards "1408"!
Teen boy makes up stories and loses trust by anyone surrounding till his homework has became a movie-hit staged by Hollywood producer presenting it as own script.
Recovering rights on movie and punishing a professional liar constitute this comedy.
Personally, I am not convinced that during a film heralded Hollywood notion "This is a place dog-eats-dog" had been changed even by this movie's characters.
Anyway, sometimes viewers should take a break from real surrounding by switching to something more positive if even a fairytale.
Good watching after "1408 (Full Screen Edition)" especially.
Great time!
2008-07-16 - This is such an entertaining and fast-moving movie that I have seen in countless times over the years and always have a great time! Thanks in HUGE part to the phenomenal performance of Paul Giamatti, BFL takes a unique idea, some excellent cameo casting (you gotta love Jaleel White with the self-effacing work he does here), and the fairly restrained performance of Frankie Muniz and concocts a funny and well done albeit innocuous little cinematic treat. Muniz could've gone overboard which other young actors succumb to but he stays in check for the most part and allows the rest of cast to do what they do. Again, without Giamatti, this movie is a throw-away, but his performance is delicious and never fails to make me laugh no matter how many times I hear his caustic remarks. He is just so, so good here!
Given how awful many movies that focus on kids outsmarting adults often are, this movie takes that dangerous premise and, thanks to building the kids' success on the help of other adults, the movie succeeds.
Worth seeing for Giamatti alone, Big Fat Liar is a great time!
A Movie For The whole Family 
2008-06-17 - This movie is pretty good, your modern cat & Mouse movie, with kids and a deranged movie producer. this movie rocks
Bought it for the kids. 
2007-10-23 - I bought this for the kids because they love it. The only thing that made this movie okay was Paul Giamatti's acting the part of Marty Wolf. However kids like this movie a lot! Most adults will find it fun enough a time or two, but after that, there are better things to do than watch this movie.
Not A Bad Movie
2007-08-19 - I wouldn't call this movie a box office smash but this movie was quite funny. I give it four stars, enough to recommend worth watching it.
